| 单词 | to darken counsel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto darken counsel 6. transitive. To obscure the meaning or intelligibility of (something); to make (something) unclear, confused, or difficult to understand. Now only in to darken counsel: to confuse or obscure matters.In to darken counsel, with allusion to Job 38:2 (see quot. 1560). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > make obscure [verb (transitive)] obfusk1490 darken1526 obfuscate1536 perplex1547 overcloudc1550 offuscate1567 obscure1584 offusque1599 intenebrate1618 tenebrificatec1743 nubilate1801 riddle1817 obscurify1826 obfusticate1834 fog1847 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)] > obscure dark?c1400 darken1526 obscure1532 obnebulatec1540 to blur over1581 adumbrate1598 blind1652 mystify1827 darkle1893 1526 W. Tyndale Prol. Epist. Rom. sig. aij It hath bene hetherto evyll darkened with glooses and wonderfull dreames off sophisters, that noman cowde spye oute the entente and meaning off it. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Ceremonies f. xxxv*v They dyd more confounde, and darken, then declare..Christes benefites. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Job xxxviii. 2 Who is this that darkeneth the counsel by wordes without knowledge? 1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God II. xxii. 595 The more sublime..his Doctrine was, the more they strove to darken and Be-mist it. 1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 179 They speak the wisdom of the skies, Which art can only darken and disguise. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. viii. 199 The belief..was confused and darkened by the cross-belief that the material world had fallen under the dominion of Satan. 1996 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 1 Jan. 6 The officer's draft..stunned Scottish civil servants who argued it was vague, confusing, and ‘likely to serve only to darken counsel and provoke requests for further information’. < as lemmas |
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